Hitchens' sapphic slip

[DesertFox]

When is a lesbian not a lesbian? When the person in question is a gay, Catholic, conservative blogger by the name of Andrew Sullivan, it would seem.

For when Sullivan was stuck for words on an American news discussion program last week, he was confronted by the acerbic polemicist Christopher Hitchens. "Don't be such a lesbian," intervened Mr Hitchens. "Get on with it."

Mr Sullivan paused. Mr Hitchens looked to the floor. And the MSNBC Tim Russert Show merrily continued with its analysis of the role religion and the preacher Jeremiah Wright have played in Barack Obama's election campaign.

The internet has since exploded with speculation, mystification and more than a little anger regarding Mr Hitchens's use of the L-word.

In an email to The Independent on Sunday, the commentator wrote: "Don't know what came over me: the dear boy did suddenly seem extremely sapphic, yet I think my intuitions must have been scrambled all the same, since what I was actually thinking was: 'Andrew really wants to have Barack Obama's f*cking child'. Clearly some confusion of categories on my part."

Source: click on Sappho, here > :limp: (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/furore-over-hitchenss-sapphic-slip-808483.html?r=RSS')

[DeclinetoState]

Why is it that a female homosexual can be called either a gay or a lesbian, but a male homosexual can only be called a gay? Well, I guess there are some terms that only apply to male homosexuals, but I believe most of them are derogatory (queen, fairy, not sure about poofter).

[DeclinetoState]

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:6q3jmDRya_FXtM:http://bp1.blogger.com/_KsIiXDH0Rds/RlwDqwdo5ZI/AAAAAAAAAr0/pVt0dxytQ_w/s400/070525_mayor_hmed_10a_hmedium.jpg

Jenny Bailey, right, Britain's first transsexual mayor, [and] [h]er partner, Jennifer Liddle, left, [who] is also transsexual and a former city council member.

Source (http://atranspt.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html)

[Tazeeyore]

there are some really screwed up people on this planet

[DoctorDoom]

Why is it that a female homosexual can be called either a gay or a lesbian, but a male homosexual can only be called a gay? Well, I guess there are some terms that only apply to male homosexuals, but I believe most of them are derogatory (queen, fairy, not sure about poofter).Perverts is a one-size-fits-all term.

BTW, they don't like to be called "homosexual". It's "offensive " to their delicate sensibilities.

Homosexual

(see Offensive Terminology to Avoid) Outdated clinical term considered derogatory and offensive by many gay people. Gay and/or lesbian accurately describe people who are attracted to members of the same sex.Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Glossary of Terms (http://www.glaad.org/media/guide/glossary.php)

So the queers (another all-inclusive term) feel free to pervert a wonderful word like "gay" (which they most assuredly are NOT), but they are offended by being called what they are: homosexuals.

If being accurately called "homosexual" offends them, I don't give a scheiss. They offend me when they corrupt language to euphemize their loathsome "lifestyle".

[DeclinetoState]

Gays call each other "fag" just like blacks call each other "nigger," but if an "outsider" uses either term, the crap strikes the ventilator.

[CzechPrince]

Hitchens cracks me up.